Educational Background

    Ph.D, Economics, 1973, Brown University, Providence, R.I.
    B.A., Economics, 1965, Brooklyn College, CUNY, Brooklyn, NY

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Who am I:

I took my Ph.D. in Economics at Brown University in 1973. Before coming to CSULA I taught at Trinity College (Hartford, CT) and, on occasion, at the University of Connecticut. Besides economics and other social sciences my interests include martial arts, history, science fiction and sculpture. I have taught at CSULA since 1975 and served as Department Chair from 1993-1997.

Teaching Interests

I teach a wide variety of courses.  I have taught courses in (among other things) macro and microeconomic theory;  managerial economics; money, banking, and the economy; principles of economics; economics for the citizen; the economics of globalization; and an interdisciplinary (economics and political science) course in international political economy. My primary emphasis is on getting students comfortable enough with the tools of the discipline (or disciplines) so that they can use them as aids in thinking for themselves. I have little interest in having students agree with me, and a great deal of interest in having them attain the ability to understand their own views and the ability to explain and defend their views.

In all courses I require students to write essays in the form of exams and/or research papers and/or homework assignments. There are two reasons for this. First, I do not believe that a person really understands anything if they cannot explain it to someone else. [English as a second language presents a problem but not an insurmountable problem.] Second, one of the responsibilities of University faculty is to prepare students to be productive members of society. Skill at explaining and presenting views and analyses is very useful in society (there is a large market for it). Ability to take multiple guess and other short answer exams has little use outside the classroom.

In most of the courses I teach I have students work with computer simulation programs. This provides practice in making decisions, with instant feedback showing the consequences of their decisions. Combined with the requirement that they subsequently explain why their decisions had those consequences, I believe this type of practice offers the best training in economics short of real world experience where actual money, and perhaps lives, are at stake.

Research Interests

I have worked in a variety of areas, including core macro and micro economics and diverse applications. A selection of publications and presentations is presented in the table below:  

2007	"Impact of the Introduction of Index Linked Bonds on a Non Indexed Bond," (co-authored) Applied Economics Letters, forthcoming (still forthcoming in 2008)
2006	"A Voucher Supplement to Existing Anti-Discrimination Programs in the Job Market," (co-authored) Eastern Economic Journal, Spring 2006
2004	“SimEcon®:  Design, Usage, and Assessment,”  (co-authored) presented at the American Economics Association Annual Meetings, San Diego
2001	“Assessing SimEcon®,” (co-authored) presented at the American Economics Association Annual Meetings
2000	"Teaching Economics With SimEcon®," (co-authored) presented at the American Economics Association Annual Meetings
1993	Bureaucracy: Three Paradigms (editor and author of two chapters), Kluwer Academic Publishing [book]
1992	"Workers, Capitalists, Bureaucrats: Who’s Ahead?," California Sociologist, v. 15, no. 1, 2
1985	"Consistent Expectations of Monetary and Price Changes," Proceedings of the American Statistical Association (co-authored).
1983	"Structural Neutrality and the Determination of Nominal Interest Rates," International Review of Economics and Business, October (co-authored)
1983	"Monetary and Public Debt Shocks," Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, May (co-authored)

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